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• Iditapod: Mushers Head Back to the Yukon River

  11-03-2017 23:19
  
  In Episode 11, we talk about: How few dogs have been dropped, the rookies are making a run for it,  and Huslia’s mushing tradition.
  If you have a question about the Iditarod, email us at [email protected].
  
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• Committee sends budget to full House

  11-03-2017 04:02
  
  Rep. Paul Seaton, R-Homer, (center) chairs the House Finance Committee shortly before the body passed it’s version of the state budget March 10, 2017, to the House of Representatives. (Photo by Skip Gray/360 North)The House Finance Committee has proposed cutting $31 million from the state budget.
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  That’s a little less than 1 percent of the annual amount the Legislature directly controls.
  As the full House considers the spending plan next week, clear differences have emerged
  
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• International Women’s Day and the YWCA

  11-03-2017 03:59
  
  Wednesday was International Women’s Day. Some women in the U.S. stayed home from work to highlight the economic importance of women. Others wore red in a show of solidarity or committed to not shopping for the day or only shopping at women owned businesses.
  Hilary Morgan is the executive director of the YWCA in Anchorage. She says her staff struggled with how to show support but also honor women who do not have the option of missing a day of work. In Alaska, where domestic violence and sex
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Friday, March 10, 2017

  11-03-2017 03:52
  
  Stories are posted on the APRN news page. You can subscribe to APRN’s newsfeeds via email, podcast and RSS. Follow us on Facebook at alaskapublic.org and on Twitter @aprn
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  Committee sends budget to full House
  Andrew Kitchenman, KTOO – Juneau
  The House Finance Committee has proposed cutting 31 million dollars from the state budget. That’s a little less than 1 percent of the amount the Legislature directly controls. As the full House considers the spending plan next wee
  
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• Why are mushing teams much larger at the midway point?

  11-03-2017 03:31
  
  Lots of dogs resting in Galena, where many mushers are taking their 24 hour rests this year (Photo: Zachariah Hughes, Alaska Public Media)The first three mushers to arrive in Huslia all had 16 dogs on the line—the same number they started the race with nearly 500 miles ago. Up and down the leader-board mushers are arriving with big teams, and dropping far fewer dogs than in recent years.
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  Kristy Berington said that might have something to do with this year’s race route over
  
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• The health care overhaul

  11-03-2017 03:09
  
  (Photo via Alaska Native Medical Center)Congressional Republicans and the Trump Administration are moving forward with their plan to replace elements of the Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare. How could big changes to health insurance coverage affect Alaskans? What will happen to coverage for the more than 30 thousand residents who gained it through Medicaid expansion?
  HOST: Lori Townsend
  GUESTS:
  Joshua Weinstein – Benefits expert
  Becky Hultberg – CEO of the Alaska Sta
  
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• Young’s idea: ‘Wall bonds’

  11-03-2017 02:23
  
  Alaska Rep. Don Young. File photo: Liz Ruskin.Alaska Congressman Don Young doesn’t like President Trump’s plan to build a wall on the border with Mexico, and his objection isn’t on humanitarian grounds. Young says the wall just won’t work.
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  “It’s that simple,” Young said at a public forum in Washington, D.C. this week. “I’m not going to spend 18, 20, 100 billion dollars to build something that’s not going to work.&rd
  
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• Traveling Music 3-19-17

  11-03-2017 02:20
  Traveling Music
  3-19-17
  Shonti Elder
   
  Format:
  Song TitleArtist / Composer
  CD Title
  Label
  Duration
   
   
  A Bold Young Farmer
  Eva Cassidy / Traditional
  Somewhere
  Blixstreet
  3:44
   
  Darkness, Darkness
  Solas / Jesse Colin Young
  All These Years
  THL Records
  4:40
   
  When the Circus Comes To Town
  Cliff Eberhardt / Cliff Eberhardt
  The Greenwich Village Folk Festival 1989-90
  Gadfly Records
  2:40
   
  Another Side of Home
  Andrea Zonn / Thomas Jutz, Bill Lloyd, Andrea Zonn
  Rise
  Compas
  
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• The rich mushing legacy of Huslia

  11-03-2017 02:12
  
  Wilson Sam’s kennel in Huslia (Photo: Ben Matheson, KNOM)Huslia is hosting the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race for the second time ever. The Interior village is rich in mushing history as it is the home of the late sprint champion musher George Attla Junior and other top names in Alaska dog racing. And as elite teams pass through the home of mushing royalty, local dog drivers are looking ahead to the next generation of mushers.77-year old Wilson Sam has 20 dogs in his kennel overlooking the K
  
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• AK: Wild salmon on the school lunch menu in Sitka

  11-03-2017 01:22
  
  
  Lorelai and Arianna are two of the students enjoying the wild salon school lunches (Photo: Emily Russell, KCAW).KCAW’s Emily Russell in Sitka reports on how wild salmon makes its way out of a fisherman’s net and onto a student’s plate.
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  AUDIO TRANSCRIPT:
  It’s a little after eleven in the morning at Keet Gooshi Heen Elementary School in Sitka. The cafeteria is quiet. That is, until the doors open and student flood in.
  Once she’s got her food, I sit down wit
  
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• Boat building

  11-03-2017 01:00
  
  Mark Howey at work on his Lowell dory skiff. (KCAW photo / Erik Neumann)Boat building is much more than carpentry. As we’ll hear on the next show, boats can be an extension of a builder’s heart, connecting to traditions and place, and relating a paddler’s physical and spiritual being to the ocean. The guests we’ll hear from are skilled craftspeople who have spent their lives building and repairing wooden boats, and building traditional Inuit kayaks. In each case, the
  
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• 49 Voices: Carlos Tayag of Unalaska

  11-03-2017 00:52
  
  
  Carlos Tayag of Unalaska (Photo: Zoe Sobel, Alaska’s Energy Desk – Unalaska)Now it’s time for 49 voices. This week we’re hearing from Carlos Tayag in Unalaska. Tayag is the Teen and Leisure program coordinator for the city and moved to the island from Washington three years ago.
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  TAYAG: I’m the most likely to do anything fun on the island when it comes to leisure activities after school. So if a kid comes to me with some crazy idea like “Hey, we shou
  
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• Alaska judge rules against halting northern town's new name - Toledo Blade

  11-03-2017 00:42
  
  Toledo Blade
  Alaska judge rules against halting northern town's new name
  Toledo Blade
  A boat drives past a skin boat display near whale bones and an arch made of a whale jaw on the beach in a town that was known as Barrow, Alaska. A judge in Alaska has dealt a legal blow to opponents of the new Inupiat Eskimo name approved by voters in ...and more »
  
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• Alaska Man Charged With Using Front-End Loader to Steal ATM - U.S. News & World Report

  11-03-2017 00:13
  U.S. News & World Report
  Alaska Man Charged With Using Front-End Loader to Steal ATM
  U.S. News & World Report
  An Anchorage, Alaska, man has been charged with using an unusual tool to steal an ATM _ a front-end loader. | March 10, 2017, at 6:06 p.m.. MORE. LinkedIn · StumbleUpon · Google +; Cancel. Alaska Man Charged With Using Front-End Loader to Steal ...and more »
  
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• More money for the Alaska Marine Highway - KTOO

  11-03-2017 00:02
  
  KTOO
  More money for the Alaska Marine Highway
  KTOO
  The fast ferry Fairweather docks in Petersburg on Aug. 20, 2013, after a trip from Juneau. Budget cuts eliminated that route and reduced sailings to and from other communities. (Photo by Ed Schoenfeld/CoastAlaska News). State House budget writers have ...
  
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